Legal Opinion
McClendon v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided September 12, 2016No. S16A0699; S16A0700PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUNSTEIN, Justice.
Appellants Johnny McClendon and Marquice Burks were tried jointly and convicted of malice murder and related offenses in connection with the April 2007 shooting death of Christopher Crawford. Both men now appeal. Though we find no merit in any of the pre-trial and trial phase enumerations raised by appellants, we agree with Burks that the trial court erred during sentencing when it failed to recognize that his felony murder verdicts were vacated by operation of law. Further, although not raised by McClendon, the trial court’s purported merger of his felony murder verdicts…
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